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The Minnesota Wildlife Tracking Project hosted a Practice Assessment the weekend of August 2-3, led by our local Track & Sign Professionals and Specialists. Eight people from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Tennessee participated in this CyberTracker style "mock evaluation" at sites around Mississippi Gateway Regional Park and Fort Snelling State Park. Participants answered 56 questions covering 14 species of mammals, 7 species of birds, 2 herps, 2 invertebrates, 1 human sign, and 1 abiotic process. Highlights included perfect tracks of a red fox in mud; woodchuck, green heron, and a swimming frog; and twigs clipped by oak twig girdlers (Agrilus angelicus).
Minnesota Wildlife Tracking Project members who score in the 90s on one of our Practice Assessments are invited to join our team of Tracking Club Facilitators. Congratulations to Greg Schayes and Ronnie Hartman for achieving this milestone!
A huge thanks to everyone who participated in the weekend. If you want to get in on the fun, applications are still open for our final practice assessment of the year, November 1-2. Click here to learn more and apply.
Long, robust claws are a key to identifying these stripped skunk tracks (Q19).
The group debriefs gray squirrel marking on the lee side of a huge cottonwood (Q47).
Perfect red fox tracks in mud (Q31).
The right front track of a beaver (Q51 & 52).
Destiny contemplates the subtle sign of a mud dauber gathering mud (Q36).
Woodchuck tracks (Q21).
Bill debriefs the trail of a trotting coyote (Q1 & 2).
The whole gang at the end of the Practice Assessment. Back row: Greg, Mike, Jon, Maria, Ronnie, Aimee. Front row: Bill, Melissa, Anthony, Destiny, and Leah.
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